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  • 100 Years Ago Hatred Spawned His Murder—Has Anything Changed Today?

    By Larry Peterson Meet Father James E. Coyle  What follows is an “American” story about a Catholic priest and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. It is about love and hatred in America. This story is not about the present day. But since it is the way of things in our 21st century, it Read more

  • Catholics as Evangelists, You Can Do It

      By Larry Peterson We Catholics hear much about evangelizing and evangelization. (read Evangelium Gaudium). I believe evangelizing starts with each one of us. We have to be willing to say the name of JESUS in public. I am not suggesting that we stand on a street corner screaming His name. Instead, when we are Read more

  • Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and Children; all Martyred “In Odium Fidei”*

    The Ulma Family; Dad, Mom, Children; Stanislaw, age 8, Barbara, age 7, Vladyslaw, age 6, Franciszek, age 4, Antoni, age 3,  Maria, age2, and  newborn (no name) all martyred  by the Nazis on March 24, 1944  Entire family will be Beatified on September 10, 2023 By Larry Peterson When I discover a hidden gem in Read more

  • Madness erupts over Gender Identity? Time to Listen to St. John Paul II

    By Larry Peterson Thirty-five years ago, Pope St. John Paul II wrote an apostolic letter titled Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women). It identified the complementary roles of men and women in line with the philosophy of feminism. Doing so demonstrated the ultimate concept of “giving of oneself.” Testimony for the ages Read more

  • “Hey St. Joseph, Can you help us bring all the absentee fathers home?”

    When God chose Joseph, He knew what He was doing By Larry Peterson When God chose Joseph of Nazareth to be the foster father of His only Son, He certainly knew what He was doing. That is because this 19-year-old carpenter became the most excellent husband and father who ever lived. I call St. Joseph Read more

  • Prior to Mary’s Assumption, did she actually die?

    What is the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God? By Larry Peterson On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, writing and speaking ex-cathedra, solemnly defined in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, the dogma that  “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of  her earthly life, was assumed Read more